IT Helpdesk Intern - Summer 2027

About Us At Antares, our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. We’re fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military, solve the climate crisis, elevate global living standards, and expand humanity's presence in outer space. To achieve our mission, we’re building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially, underwater, and in space. The Antares team hails from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, Rigetti Computing, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Idaho, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Savannah River. Antares has raised over $600M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has hundreds of million-dollars on contract with the military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy. About the Summer Internship Program Internships at Antares are anything but ordinary. You'll work alongside our team as we design, build, and test fission microreactors built to deliver reliable energy for critical missions on Earth, in space, and underwater. Our interns contribute to real work from day one. Depending on your role, you may touch hardware, write and test software, support manufacturing and operations, or help build the systems that allow Antares to move quickly as we scale. You'll work alongside engineers, operators, and other experts solving challenging problems—and you'll leave your internship with hands-on experience that's difficult to find anywhere else. We work hard, move quickly, and take pride in what we're building. If you're excited to learn by doing and want to contribute to the next generation of nuclear energy, we'd love to have you join us next summer. We will be running two separate cohorts to accommodate students on both semester and quarter schedules: Cohort #1 Monday, May 17 – Friday, August 13 Cohort #2 Monday, June 14 – Friday, September 10 All internship roles are based at our Torrance headquarters and require interns to work onsite five days per week. We will not be considering candidates for remote or hybrid arrangements. Interns will receive a relocation and housing stipend as part of their offer package. About the Role As an IT Helpdesk Intern, you will help support Antares’ growing team and the day-to-day technology employees rely on to do their jobs. You will work directly with users to troubleshoot account, application, and hardware issues while helping deploy and maintain laptops, workstations, and other IT systems. You will gain hands-on experience across the full lifecycle of corporate IT, including onboarding, account administration, endpoint maintenance, inventory management, cybersecurity and compliance activities, and end-user training. You will also provide responsive, white-glove IT support to company executives. This role is well suited for someone who enjoys troubleshooting technical problems, working directly with users, and taking ownership of issues through resolution. Roles and Responsibilities: Troubleshoot day-to-day user issues involving accounts, applications, hardware, and other IT systems Create and configure accounts for new employees Deploy and configure new laptops and workstations Set up desks and associated IT equipment for new and existing employees Diagnose malfunctioning or aging systems and coordinate hardware swaps and replacements Patch and maintain employee systems Configure and manage systems used across the organization Assist with cybersecurity and compliance-related tasks Tag IT equipment and maintain accurate hardware inventory Provide IT onboarding and training to new employees Provide responsive, white-glove IT support to executives Help maintain reliable IT operations as the company grows to more than 160 users Basic Qualifications: Enrolled in at least a bachelor’s degree program, and going into your Junior or Senior year of studies Must have prior internship experience, or